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Through the valley of shadows : living wills, intensive care, and making medicine human

In place of living wills, which have fundamentally misunderstood the problems people face during life-threatening illness, researcher and practicing ICU physician Samuel Morris Brown advocates a system of individualized guidance alongside fundamental reform.Read more...

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A culture in crisis --
The rise of the living will --
Empirical and ethical problems with living wills --
Living wills don't make decisions : human beings do --
The barbaric life of the ICU --
Life after the ICU --
Reform : the current state of the art --
Healing the intensive care unit.

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Samuel Morris Brown.

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If you work in an ICU, or in palliative care in a system that includes intensive medical care, there is a lot to think about here. * IAHPC, Roger Woodruff *